Network for Peace

CND Cymru will be there!
CND Cymru needs volunteers to commit themselves to helping in Pabell CND Cymru/ Heddwch.
If you are a Welsh speaker or learner and would like to help – for a day or for longer (with free entrance and time off of course!) please contact Brian Jones: t: 01792 830 330 e: brian.jones@phonecoop.coop

An ecumenical prayer vigil will be followed by the laying of flowers at the gate and boundary fence of the factory in memory of the millions of innocent victims of the arms trade. Location: http://tinyurl.com/bo9xn2m

PAWB: Pobl Atal Wylfa B/ People Against Wylfa B roadside protest against nuclear power.
• in sympathy with the people of Fukushima in Japan, marking the second anniversary of this ongoing disaster.
• in support of Cumbria County Council's decision to refuse permission for a huge underground depository for radioactive waste
• against Hitachi's plan to store spent nuclear fuel (twice as radioactive as the present fuel), on site at Wylfa B for at least 150 years
Why on the bridge?
• to highlight the impossibility of evacuating Ynys Môn in the event of a nuclear disaster

Public Meeting with keynote speaker - John Rose, Jewish academic, activist & author of 'The Myths of Zionism'. John became a campaigner for Palestinian rights in 1967 during the 'Six Days War' and anti-Vietnam war movement shortly after participating in the first ever student sit-in in Britain at the LSE, in the same year he became one of 35 British students recruited by to carry out underground resistance work in South Africa against the apartheid regime.

On February 15, 2003 over 15 million people marched against the war in Iraq, in over 800 cities around the world. It is estimated that the London protest alone was perhaps 2 million strong.
If you protested on February 15, 2003, you made history! Tens of millions of people said "Not in Our Name" to warmongers in the biggest mass protest in the history of the human race. With history seemingly repeating itself with the drumbeats of war against Iran, it is now more timely and important than ever to remember and learn the lessons of the past, and prevent another costly and catastrophic war.

The rise of fascism in Europe is frightening. Nowhere more so than in Greece, where the Nazis of the Golden Dawn Party are in the parliament, third in the polls, and attacking immigrants and political opponents daily.
Speakers: Diane Abbott MP. Andy Slaughter MP. Claude Moraes MEP. Jeremy Corbyn MP. Leslie Mercer TUC President. Christine Blower NUT General Secretary and many more.

With DR TOBY Abse

British Pugwash discussion meeting to launch its latest report: Pathways to 2050: Three possible UK energy strategies. It will be followed by an informal drinks reception.
For further details, please go to http://www.britishpugwash.org/upcoming%20events%2029%2009.htm

A report-back from a US/UK delegation to Iran.
Justice not Vengeance sent artist Emily Johns and Milan Rai (author of War Plan Iraq and Chomsky's Politics) to Iran on a 10-day peace delegation. The two Peace News co-editors will be speaking around the country and creating an art/politics book about Iran called 'Drawing Paradise on the "Axis of Evil"'. To book a talk in your town, please email: irantalks2013@gmail.com or leave a message on 01424 428792.
First report-back in London.
Follow the blog: www.drawingparadise.org

Celebrate the day we almost forced Blair out of the Iraq War - with a Giant Wobbly Jelly. Have a giant jelly event in your town – or join us in Central London at 1pm on 19 March.
Wobbly Tuesday is one of the great secrets of the Iraq war, kept secret not by state censorship and repression, but by media and academic self-censorship.

Nearly 10 years on, it is time for the British anti-war movement to finally shake off the lie that the astonishing anti-war mobilisation of early 2003 had no effect whatsoever on the British government.
http://wobblytuesday.org

Premiere performance of a series of poems by Fatieh Saudi reflecting on the childhoods of Moses, Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed. In this collection of poems, the author travels into the childhood of the prophets Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. She creates a poetic world of feelings, hope and despair, humanity and exile, tracing each prophet’s unique path to revelation.

An opportunity to build on your current practice, develop new initiatives, learn new approaches, discussion, reflection and implications for action. With Noeline Sanders, a Justice, Peace, Reconciliation and sustainability advocate and practitioner.
http://www.stcolumbashouse.org.uk

Once again we will be protesting outside Downing Street on Budget Day – calling for the Government to prioritise jobs, health, education over a multi-billion pound Cold War weapons system.
The public don't want it. The military think it's useless. Scrap Trident and cancel plans to replace it!
Lunchtime protest, 12 noon - 2pm Rally and protest at Old Palace Yard, Abingdon St. Supporting the PCS strike day rally.

Evening protest, 6.30pm Rally and protest opposite Downing St on Whitehall. Called by Coalition of Resistance and Unite the Resistance.

Public Meeting: Remembering Fukushima
We hope you'll join us for speeches from experts as well as Fukushima evacuees on the current situation in Japan and the implications for UK new nuclear build.

To mark 55 years since the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was founded, Student CND is showing Beating the Bomb - a film that tracks the history of nuclear weapons and the peace movement that has fought against them.
The film charts the efforts of individuals and organizations to rid Britain of its nuclear weapons system from past to present. It also frames the nuclear weapons issue within the wider context of global justice. It is widely argued that the pressing issues of the day, from poverty to climate change cannot be tackled without addressing the underlying economic system.

An event organised by Medact.
Today many decision makers believe that ‘nuclear deterrence’ is an essential component of the UK’s defence strategy. At this event Medact will launch a report which examines the delusional nature of some of the thinking that underpins this belief.
The evening will be chaired by Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer, and speakers include Frank Boulton, a Trustee of Medact; Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; and Ben Zala, Director of the Sustainable Security Programme of the Oxford Research Group.

This year on April Fools’ Day, we will be going to Aldermaston to highlight our opposition to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system – because that’s where the nuclear bombs are made.
We’ll be saying Scrap Trident and cancel plans to replace it.
We’ll be gathering around the base in our thousands with music, colour, and speeches. Bring things to decorate the fence and to make a noise ("rough music") at 2.

With Louise Christian

With Harry Shutt

INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) is running its 14th International Summer School. The INCORE Summer School provides a structured learning opportunity to analyse the dynamic and constantly changing field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Earlybird payment rate application deadline 8th February (and payment by end of
February). Applications are online and more information at
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/courses/ss/